Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder / Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters / La beauté est dans les yeux de celui qui regarde

Queer kiss / Queer Kuss / Baiser gay
With many thanks to Brian Trevor on Flickr for this delightful image of two handsome men expressing their affection for each other. Eat your hearts out Putin, Orbán, Trump, et al.

Ein schwuler Kuß, um die Stunden der Homophoben zu versüßen.

Es gibt keine Liebe wie schwule Liebe!
Für dieses schöne Foto bedankt man sich bei Pinterest.

A Gay Couple Who Were CNN’s First New Year’s Kiss Went Viral. They Continue to Spread Love.

LGBTQ NATION: It’s OK to love your child unconditionally whether you understand it or not," they said in a message to parents.

CNN's cameras caught two men kissing at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. Photo: Screenshot
Jake Erikkson and Corin Christian went viral after CNN captured them smooching at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve. The kiss, the first to be aired on television that night, was also shown on multiple other networks and quickly spread joy through the queer community.

“CNN’s first shot after the ball drop appears to be an interracial gay kiss. The outrage will be hilarious,” Joe My God blogger Joe Jervis predicted shortly after the kiss aired. And, as expected, the usual suspects quickly started clutching their pearls.

But Erikkson and Christian haven’t let it faze them at all. Instead, they’re focused on the positives.

The men said they hoped their kiss had a bigger impact than a few seconds of air time allowed. They want to spread the love. » | Bil Browning | Thursday, January 4, 2024

One to Enrage the Homophobes

Something quite, quite normal: Two handsome men expressing their love for each other.
With many thanks to GG Lynn for this truly delightful photo.

Fast geschafft!

Nearly there! / Presque là !
Heute gepostet, um den unterdrückten Schwulen in Russland Solidarität und Unterstützung zu verleihen.
Fürs schöne, ausdrucksvolle Bild, bedanke ich mich bei David Guevara auf Pinterest.

Canadian Sailor Shares Historic Kiss with Same-sex Partner

”A Canadian naval vessel made history … when one of its master seamen, Francis Legare, shared the traditional ‘first kiss’ with his partner, Corey Vautour”
With many thanks to The Guardian for uploading to Pinterest this historic first kiss.
Video: The historic kiss.

The Most Beautiful Gay Kiss on the Web! | First Kiss | Reupload

First Kiss is a 84-minute kissing video between the artists Idan Bitton and Alfredo Ferran Calle. While the camera is still, the kiss is in motion, provoking the viewer to stay and watch.

Idan and Alfredo do not interact with the viewer, but offer a peek into their intimate moments of commitment.

This long lasting, present and unapologetic kiss defines our current gay rights momentum. We are here, we love each other, and this is what it looks like.

By: Idan Bitton (idanbitton.com)
Performed: Idan Bitton & Alfredo Ferran Calle
Video: Runn Shayo


Alas, this video cannot be embedded on external websites; it must therefore be viewed on YouTube itself. Click here to watch the most sublime and longest gay kiss on the Web. – © Mark Alexander

Gay Kiss on Live TV Evades Singapore’s Ban on LGBT Content

THE GUARDIAN: Video clip of two men kissing in Beijing bar during Channel News Asia report hailed as ‘act of revolution’

Two men are seen kissing behind the Channel News Asia reporter during a live broadcast from Beijing. Photograph: CNA/YouTube
It was a Singaporean news report on the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, live from a Beijing bar filled with eager fans. Yet it was two men – who burst into the view of the camera, sharing a dramatic kiss – who stole the show.

The clip has since gone viral in Singapore, where broadcasting codes restrict content that promotes LGBT “lifestyles”, and where sexual relationships between men are outlawed.

The kiss does not feature in a version of the report published by Channel News Asia (CNA) on its website. But on TikTok a clip of the kiss has been viewed more than 825,000 times. “This is actually an act of revolution,” one user wrote. It has also been shared widely on Weibo, a popular social media platform in China. » | Rebecca Ratcliffe, South-east Asia correspondent | Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Skier Gus Kenworthy: ‘My Legacy in Pyeongchang Was That Kiss – to Have It Broadcast to the World Felt Amazing’

THE GUARDIAN: The 30-year-old on the toll of not living as his ‘true self’ before coming out, switching to Team GB and unease at China hosting the Winter Olympics

Gus Kenworthy, who made his name representing the United States in freestyle skiing, will compete for Great Britain at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.Photograph: Tom Pennington/Getty Images
INTERVIEW
‘Ithink of that person, or look at photos of that person, and it feels like a lifetime ago,” Gus Kenworthy says as he remembers winning a silver medal for the United States as a freestyle skier at his first Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. So much has changed since then. He is now about to compete for Great Britain, the country of his birth, in his third and final Olympics in Beijing and Kenworthy will ski as a gay man, an LGBTQ+ activist and an actor.

The most important facet of his transition is that, as Kenworthy says: “I’m just much happier now than I was back then when I wasn’t living my life authentically. I wasn’t being my true self and it definitely took a toll.”

Kenworthy will soon talk eloquently of his misgivings about competing in China, where there is disregard for some basic human rights, but I ask him first about Sochi. He had not come out then but was he distressed by homophobia in Russia? “It ate away at me. In the buildup to the Games we did lots of media training about the anti-LGBTQ legislation they had in place that foreigners wouldn’t be exempt from. We were told not to talk about it. You couldn’t paint your nails or wear anything rainbow. I remember being really upset – but I was still in the closet and I was scared.”

Even before he returned home in American glory, Kenworthy felt distinctly uncomfortable. “In the media aftermath we had so much emphasis on our lives as young men because it was a US sweep [in the slopestyle] and the other two guys were single. I had a boyfriend but we were deeply in the closet and so to all intents and purposes I was also single. We competed on February 13 and on Valentine’s Day we were on the Today show talking about our celebrity crushes, who we would want as our Valentine and our favourite kind of girl. I just lied. I went on this whole media tour where I felt I was lying the entire time. I was very depressed and absolutely hated myself.” » | Donald McRae | Thursday, February 3, 2022

More Satisfaction

Photograph : Adobe Stock

More ‘Hot’ Than ‘Cute’!

Again, my thanks go to El Chulo Dominicano, who has some of the very best photos of gay kisses on Pinterest.

Le plaisir de l'amour !

The pleasure of love / Das Vergnügen der Liebe
Many thanks to 'Amor Gay' and Pinterest for this delightful and expressive photo.

"Kiss"

A big thank you to BLOoDyPaRaDiZe and Deviant Art, where this great image is to be found. About Deviant Art, a company which helps artists.

Leaving Your Partner in No Doubt!

A great expression of love.
Very many thanks to Alex Salgues, Google Images, and Pinterest for this very expressive photo.

Un beso gay español ! Spanish Police Marrying and Kissing in Style and in Full Uniform

It was a first for Spain, and the public loved it!
Many thanks to Out on Pinterest for this super photo. Here you can read about it on Out itself.

Sam Smith and Brandon Flynn's "Happy Ending"

”Photo of Sam Smith and Brandon Flynn's Romance…”
With thanks to POPSUGAR on Pinterest for this photo.
WIKIPEDIA:

Sam Smith

Brandon Flynn

Two Men Kissing ‘Up Close and Personal’

Photo : Adobe Stock

An Innocent and Memorable Gay Kiss

Ein unschuldiger und unvergeßlicher schwuler Kuß! / Un baiser gay, innocent et mémorable !
Image thanks to Advocate.

Gay Smooch of the Day

Image courtesy of Google Images

On That Sublime Gay Kissathon in Tel Aviv

I’ve now had some more time to watch this ‘gay kissathon.’ Oh my God! Such a delightful display of love and affection! Can kissing be more beautiful than this? Is it possible? Is it really possible? Little wonder Tel Aviv was set alight by this display of sublime gay affection! Two drop-dead gorgeous men displaying love and affection for each other like no-one has ever seen before. What could be more beautiful, more noble than that? Just what this world needs: more love in all its forms, less conflict. Make love, not war! – © Mark

Permakiss electrifies Tel Aviv »